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Corporations today are focused on employee engagement – but the task of keeping employees engaged is not that easy. Recent research shows that 38 percent of the respondents to PwC’s Annual CEO Survey see effective performance management as a critical factor when they were asked “what aspects of their talent strategy would make the greatest impact on attracting, retaining and engaging the people you need to remain relevant and competitive.”1 Achieving simultaneous growth in top-line revenue and bottom-line profitability has come, and likely will continue to come, through greater levels of workforce efficiency.

The manufacturing industry has entered a completely new technological realm that did not even exist five years ago. Three industrial revolutions forever changed manufacturing—and the world—and the fourth is now underway. Factories have had to adapt rapidly with the advent of advanced automation and robotics as well as software to manage processes and control. The onset of digital manufacturing accelerates the need for new approaches. While consumers typically embrace disruptive technology with enthusiasm, manufacturers inevitably approach new technology with caution, carefully evaluating how it can improve their businesses. Eventually, however, caution must be replaced with innovation to ensure survival. Those organizations that find themselves on the wrong side of the technology curve today will face increasing challenges to remain competitive as time marches forward.

Good supply chain management is essential to your operational efficiency, customer centricity, compliance, carbon footprint, and ultimately, your overall success. If handled correctly, your supply chain should improve customer service—along with the reputation of your brand—and boost your bottom line. But, as with many areas of business, the rules of the game are changing.
What’s changing? Well, everything. New regulations, increased buyer expectations, shorter product lifecycles, fluctuations in demand, new market entrants, more ethical supplier management, poor visibility of globalized supply chains—all these things, and more, are testing the limits of the traditional supply chain model. The simple truth is that the way things used to be done, and the solutions that enabled it, are no longer up to the job.

This survey of senior managers and directors was conducted in four regions – North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Central and South America, and Asia- Pacific – with the aim of discovering attitudes towards and plans for the adoption of cloudbased supply chain management (SCM) solutions.
We focused on three key areas:
1. The criticality of supply chain to their business
2. How to reach their business objectives through supply chain processes
3. The propensity to use the supply chain cloud and reasons for adopting/not adopting

This survey of senior managers and directors was conducted in four regions – North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Central and South America, and Asia-Pacific – with the aim of discovering attitudes towards and plans for the adoption of cloud based supply chain management (SCM) solutions.
We focused on three key areas:
1. The criticality of supply chain to their business
2. How to reach their business objectives through supply chain processes
3. The propensity to use the supply chain cloud and reasons for adopting/not adopting

Despite the rise in chat adoption, many organizations are still not providing the service their customers expect. That’s why it’s essential to follow proven best practices, including defining goals, identifying key metrics, and appropriately hiring and training staff. With these foundations in place, organizations can establish routing and queuing practices, before customizing the solution to meet their specific needs, and fine-tuning analytics to further improve performance.
To learn more about how Oracle Chat Cloud Service can improve CSAT, customer loyalty, and revenue for your organization, visit oracle.com/goto/chatbestpractices

Mobile, relationship intelligence, and sales coaching are necessities for today’s sales organization and are pervasive capabilities for every sales automation solution category. No vendor solely offers these capabilities without complementing them with other functions.
Instead, they are embedded across the categories mentioned above. For example, sales content management providers cannot compete without extensive mobile expertise; market intelligence and customer success do not work without relationship intelligence; and sales coaching is not constrained only to the sales performance management vendors.

When organizations are managing sales performance, it is critical to balance and align each enablement and operational component. Misalignment – or too much focus on one element –can dramatically detract from performance levels and the ability to measure results. An organization may temporarily need to emphasize a particular component when it sees a challenge, but ultimately success depends on striking the correct balance across all SPM components.

Customers hate waiting for engineers to show up. The hours drift by. Clocks tick slower. They may have taken the day off work, but feel unable to start anything productive in case the doorbell rings. Fury builds. They call the contact centre – they’re told to keep waiting.
It’s unacceptable. And in the 21st Century totally unnecessary. Solutions exist to provide customers with an accurate forecast of when field service agents will arrive and how long the job will take.

What this case study reveals is that, with the right leadership, it is possible to turn a company around and make it far more responsive and relevant to its customers, and as a result deliver growth and profits.
The upshot of D+M's cultural and business transformation has been a return to growth and profitability. The entire enterprise has played its part, which is why the annual Chairman's Award has recognized individuals who have lived the winning cultural values and achieved excellence in performance. Winners have included factory workers and services people. The firm also continues to innovate with HEOS WMS capabilities extending to the other brands. Customer experience continues to be an area of deep cross-functional focus, and feedback from customers provides a clear indication that the customer experience throughout their buying and ownership journeys is rated highly.

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